13 Assassins – 7

A quintessential samurai movie (I forget the Japanese word for this genre), replete with the gathering of ronin, the revenge motive, the uncouth jester, and the bloody battle at the end. There is a hint, maybe more, of a larger message: what a waste this is, wouldn’t it be better if we devoted our energies to the good of the people instead of the petty politics of our nobles. But there is little else that wasn’t done in Seven Samurai, Kagemusha, and countless similar flicks. Still, the formula was followed faithfully, and it is a good one.

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